been driving the 83 D150 a lot this summer, very predictable performance,
ran the road up to the Chicago area, bought gas at the
Bucky's Mobile 542
1000 Wood Dale Road
Wood Dale Il
on 8/05/15,
13.5 gallons in a 26 gallon tank..
and started home to Indy, ran fine on 65 S
65 to 70 no issues, I do have a LED knock sensor and it lite more than normal, issue was as soon as I got off the highway, the 83 D150 would not idle, it would re start as normal on a hit of the key, let off the throttle and it would die, ran the idle adjustment up, no change
got home-city driving with a lot of agrivation, figured I burnt a valve, checked compression
175
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178
180
180
180
after 15K miles a testament to the work at Ed's Machine Shop in Morresville IN, recommended shop...
back to the issue..
I could screw with the carb and get it to idle,,sort of,, with everything hugely out of balance, like it did when it had a huge vacuum leak, pulled the intake and dual Dutra's,, everything was sealed fine, just a lot of fun for no good reason, seriously,, it is a PITA to pull and re set a slant six manifold system, on a D150, for no good reason..
The 83 D150 is running a 90 D150 fuel system, in tank pump, ,,, with that I have a Fram Filter.
went to change that, here is a photo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13718356@ ... datetaken/
the fuel that was in the fuel filter housing, does not even smell like gasoline, I got a tank full of water-gas ,,
in that photo
new filter on left
existing filter in middle
"water" bottle has what was drained from the fuel filter housing, figure I have another 13 gallons of that in the fuel tank.
breaking to the story, I will be calling that dealer and Mobile tomorrow,
got some water diluted gas to resolve.